Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy (1911)
Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Wacker, Charles Henry, 1856-, Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago, Printed by H. C. Sherman & co. · leaf 78
nce. The few walls leftto be blotted out today, what would be here standing would be open to rain and snow from all sidesand in a fewyears wouldbefallen in ruins.Stone andbrick wouldd i s i ntegrateand becomedust and earth.If fire did notcome, and Chi-cago were leftto decay, theelementswould at… … 68 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OF CHICAGO tures would first become weather-beaten,then boards would loosen and blow to theground, and within less than a centuryevery wooden building would become amound of musty ruin mingled with the soilof the earth. The massive steel beams ofour high buildings…
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